The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-21
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A FISH with guilt eyebrows is caught of
the English coast.
GEORGIA will celebrate her second Arbor
Day next November.
DENvER's directory maker says the city
contains 10000 people.
RUSSIA is said to spend 900 annu
ally for her armament.
DETROIT has more than 200 miles of cleo
trio wires underground.
IT Is proposed to put so, 600 600 Russian
peasants back into serfdom.
A. Hoss is the name of a newly elected
justice of the peace at Peru, ILL.,
A BURGLAR seldom does his work alone.
He generally has jimmy with him.
WHEN Henry George lived in California
hewas an inspector of gas meters.
AN Omaha grocer gives away an original
poem with every cake of soap he sells.
AT the present rate of decrease tie ma
tional debt will disappear in twelve years.
In New York policeman clubbed
young man for performing on an accor-
dion.
LONDON has thirty-seven theaters, twen-
ty-seven music halls and ffty-eight con-
cert rooms.
AN unknown quantity may be described
as what you get when you buy quart box
OF strawberries.
QUEEN ViCToRIA's jubilee has been cele
brated with great pomp in Teheran, the
capital of Persia.
The Russian duty on iron and steel, and
on articles manufactured from iron and
steel, has been raised.
AND now comes the report that Russia
and Austria are plotting against Turkeys
European possessions
The old home of Aaron Burr is among
the property just purchased by real
estate syndicate in New York.
FIFTY THOUSAND copies of Mrs. Cleve-
lands photograph have already been sold.
The demand is about 200 day.
JAY GoULD's purchases of Arkansas
lands, cover fully ten thousand acres, To-
Gated in three different counties.
The Philadelphia Press says the college
curriculum now consists of baseball
guide, and Hanlan's rules on rowing
GENERAL BucKNER's admirers in Ken
tncky are going to make "Bolivar, Betty
and the Baby' cir campaign slogan.
The richest young man in Philadelphis.
society is August L. Jessup. He is only
twenty-four, and has an income of SIC, 600 a
year.
In his ninety years Kaiser Wilhelm has
survived no fewer than seventy-two reign
ing sovereigns who were his contempor-
aries.
The New York Senate has passed bill
prohibiting the use of coal stoves in cars.
This is u good time to put such law in
force.
GOVERNOR AMEs, of Massachusetts, lives
in magnificent style. 1t costs him fully
$4,000 year to keep up his Boston estab.
lishment.
THE University of Pennsylvania has de.
cided that from the opening of next ses sion
no cigarette smoking by the students will
be allowed.
A CALIFORNIA court has decided that
when man is taken i'll at q hotel no extra
charge can be made for serving his meals
in his room.
THE longest continuous railway run now
made is said to be that of the new Sarato-
ga limited, from New York to Troy GAS
miles) without stop.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
has taken 700 pages of testimony relative
to the operation of the long and short haul
clause in the South.
"KAPIoLANI Kaptivates Kaiifornia.
Kome, Kweenly Kanaka," )" is the rapt way
in which the Boston Transcript addresses
the Hawaiian Queen.
ONE Of the Albany IN. W storekeepers
is young girl fifteen years old. She
manages the store without assistance, and
pursues a growing business.
THE Paris exhibition of 1889 will be post
poned till 1890. and will probably be aban-
doned eventually on account of lack of
cooperation by other countries.
Mr.. KILBRIDE, Irish tenant, in this coun-
try with Editor William O'Brien, is worth
S26O, 600 and lives in a palace which would
rent in any city for so, 600 year.
DULUTH has among her citizens, Spring,
Winter, Summer, Breeze, Rainey, Dewey,
Frost and Snow, but claims that Mr.. Cy
Clone has never visited the city yet.
THE gifts of the late VIM. De Pauw, In
diana glass manufacturer, TO the Green
castle Qnd.) University, which bears his
name, amount to more than 81 900, 900.
ST. PAUL has land syndicate which
gives land free to new manufactures To-
eating there, and they employ salaried
agent to travel and drum up business.
The probability that Sunday ball-play-
ing in Illinois will be stopped by action of
the Legislature has thrown damper on
the spirits of the amateur clubs in the
State.
A WOMAN, Mrs. Louise Daniels, has been
licensed as pilot Of Lake Champlain
steamer. Her examination, conducted by
U. S. Inspectors, is said to have been most
satisfactory.
JAY GOULD has taken to eating snails.
He got his strange appetite while in New
Mexico recently. They are roasted in the
she'll after the manner Of clans, and are
said to make a palatable dish.
IT is denied in Washington that Secre.
tary Lamar's declination to attend the din
ner given by the President to Queen Kap-
iolani was on account of the latter's color.
The Secretary, it is said, was i'll.
PHILADELPHIA has double the houses of
New York, with less population. New
York is distinguished for the extremes OF
millionaires and tramps. Philadelphia is
distinguished as the ''City Of Homes"
Or the six million women in Brazil, only
half million can read or write And in
the remote districts, il man has occasion
TO leave home. ne locks up his house and
puts his wife in a convent until he re-
turns.
A CONTRACTOR engaged ON the grading at
Langhead's coke works, at Fairchance,
Pa, on the Southwest vailroad, is the
owner Of horse which possesses the re-
markable growth Of a flowing moustache
on its upper lip.